Written by Judy MacGregor- Equal opportunities Comissioner, NZ Read here: Pervasive power of man made news

Interesting out take: Governance structures of NZ media companies- here where owners and shareholders provide strategic direction to media ocmpanies. This impacts directly and indirectly on editorial control of public and privately owned media companies. Murdock (1977) governance linked to allocative control as opposed to operational control. AC operates on the higher general levelconcerned with structure and development of media enterprise as a whole.

  • Scale and scope of media activities and overall allocation of resources, such as hiring and firing of editors, operates at this level. Directors of boards wield power and influence - compelling social justice and business cases for womens representation on the boards of directors.

Now to some man made news : Google apps- should you switch?

Quote from today from a very grand friend of mine ” I must admit that I do love Google.  It is great watching the world
changing.”